Culture

With his humble beginnings in a Chicago slum to his meteoric rise to the top of the music and movie worlds, Quincy Jones has been connected to virtually every music phenomena of the 20th century. Now 85, and having overcome several near-death experiences from brain aneurysms and coma, you would…

Let’s face it. Older people are not often the subject of choice for photographers, especially when they’re engaging in love or intimacy. But in a number of new publications and exhibits, several photographers have taken what’s usually hidden or invisible and instead, publicly presented seniors in surprising and unexpected ways….

Rumor has it that this may be his last film role, so lucky for us the early reviews of his performance are glowing. In The Old Man & His Gun, 82-year-old Robert Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a real-life gentleman bank robber, profiled in The New Yorker in 2003, who enjoyed…

While it’s a well-known fact that Jews fleeing the Holocaust settled in all corners of the globe, less well known is what’s happened to these survivors as they’ve grown old in foreign lands. Many survivors fled to Latin America, and it’s the story of one such survivor that’s the focus…

Whether you accept or deny it, none of us escapes the inevitable forces of mother nature that make our faces and skin reflect our aging. As gravity pulls, cartilage weakens and collagen disappears, you will likely see shifts and lumps and bags and lines in places previously smooth and silky. For…

You’ve likely seen her yellow spotted pumpkins or maybe stood in line to enter one of her “Infinity Rooms” at a gallery or museum exhibit. In fact, at age 89, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama now has a bigger following than she’s ever had in her lifetime and she’s the top-selling…